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Men Quotes by Leonard Cohen
- I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.
- Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
- Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in…
- As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his…
- Suzanne had a room on a waterfront street in the port of Montreal. Everything happened just as it was put down. She was the wife…
- Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.
- What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men…
- I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he…
- My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
- They ended every speech with the word hiro, which means: like I said. Thus each man took responsibility for intruding into the inarticulate murmur of…
- He hated the men floating in sleep in the big stone houses. Because their lives were ordered and their rooms tidy. Because they got up…
- Except for a couple of hours in the morning which I passed in the company of a sage I stayed in bed without food only…
- I heard of a man who says words so beautifully that if he only speaks their name women give themselves to him. If I am…
- If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask. If you want…
- He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men,…
- And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their…
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